THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Spell out WPA

New Deal plan that employed young men in the conservation effort

Term for pockets turned out during the Great Depression

Steinbeck’s 1939 masterpiece about the Dust Bowl

New Deal agency created to insure bank savings deposits; Insures accounts up to $100,000

Provides retirement benefits for the elderly

Three R’s of FDR

New Deal program that provided part-time jobs to people between the ages of 16 and 25

Purchasing stock with borrowed money

FDR’s policy concerning better relations with Latin America

Economic downturn began by the Stock Market Crash

Collections of makeshift shelters built by homeless people; Sometimes referred to as Hoovervilles

Folk singer of the Dust Bowl

Success comes through individual effort and private enterprise; Believed by Hoover during the Great Depression

Main advisor of FDR

Nickname for FDR’s intellectual advisors

Nickname for FDR’s civil rights advisors

President at the beginning of the Great Depression

Relief program of the 1930s by Huey Long

Dorothea Lange’s most famous photograph from the Great Depression

Act that guaranteed labor’s right to organize unions and bargain for better wages and working conditions

Built dams and power stations to provided hydroelectric power and flood control to the Rural South

FDR’s plan to stop massive withdrawals during the Great Depression

Appointed by FDR as the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the federal government

Rate of unemployment during the Great Depression

Repealed prohibition

Main medium during the Great Depression

Nickname for FDR’s New Deal Programs

WWI veterans who march on Washington, D.C. demanding pensions

New Deal program that employed artists and writers

New Deal plan that reduced farmers’ output and increased crop prices

Great Plains was called this after a severe drought struck the region in 1930s

Nickname given to October 29, 1929; Day of Stock Market Crash